On May 23, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Sam Stickland wrote: > Joe Abley wrote: >> >> On 22 May 2008, at 23:16, James R. Cutler wrote: >> >>> The announcement was made to nanog-announce, but not to nanog. I >>> would expect that there are scads more readers of nanog than of >>> nanog announce. >> >> When I was sending things to nanog-announce, it was the case that >> mail to nanog-announce was sent to people who had specifically >> subscribed to that list, plus anybody who hadn't but who was >> subscribed to nanog (in other words, it was sent to the union of >> both lists). >> >> That might have changed since the transition to mailman. It seemed >> like a useful approach, though. >> > Kinda makes you wonder what the purpose on the announce list is > though.
IMHO the purpose is (or should be) that the posting-privileges for announce is limited, so that messages from that list about things like changes in format or meeting times can be treated as authoritative. Regards Marshall > Are there actually people subscribed to nanog-annouce that aren't > subscribed to nanog? > > Sam > _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
